No it isn't. It is a fact of human development.

That doesn't mean helicopter parenting is in order or that they can't manage at home by themselves for a while with generally increasing autonomy, but it does mean that expecting adult thinking about longer term life choices will be hit and miss at best. It makes no more sense to hold them forever responsible for their actions than it does to teach calculus in kindergarten.

While pulling everything off the internet forever isn't really possible, we can certainly disallow use of old information from childhood when deciding on employment or credit at the very least.

Snowden hands over evidence that the NSA has been illegally spying on U.S. citizens and Allies (not to mention perjuring itself before Congress) to an American journalist resulting in a careful release of some data to prove the allegation and the feds call for his head on a platter, even risking an international incident or two to try to disappear him.

The OPM fumbles and hands over 4.2 million very detailed dossiers on federal employees and 21 million others with security clearance to China and the feds say "no worries, we'll give you a year of credit monitoring.....eventually.".

Damned spell checker...

I can imagine a few good reasons *IF* security is tight enough. For example, many people don't know in advance when they will return home. It might be nice to bump the heat up or the AC down when they're on their way. Some people get 'lock anxiety' when they are out (OMG, did I forget to lock the door). Now they can be sure.

The key is to make sure it is secure. My preference would be a firewall rule on the router that allows me to ssh to a designated box that then allows me to control the home systems. Make it pubkey authentication only.

As for the intranet, given how many people fail to secure their WiFi, I wouldn't count on that keeping it secure either. Better if there is decenty authentication on the device itself.

Sounds like a hell hole. I suspect we can do better if we adults can grow up and start acting like we claim we ought to.

Except the player's actual height is irrelevant. The strike zone is measured as the batsman stands awaiting the pitch (that is, hunched up somewhat with knees bent).

The process did tighten up the strike zone sufficiently and it worked because it kept the umpire in charge with the machine simply providing feedback.

Mod this up!

If I had to name the modern trends that need to go away it would be the cultivation of fear and the taste for eternal punishment for all.

And then THEY get punished while the bully plays poor me. These days, that punishment may include arrest and court appearances. That information will be 'out there' and will not likely mention the sore provocation over many months that lead to it.

You're asking kids to behave as adults. You might as well mock a baby for pissing itself for all the good it will do.

Remember, there was a time long ago when you saw nothing at all embarrassing about sitting in your own filth.

Actually, I don't. I espectally don't support putting people who pissed on dumpsters in the middle of the night on those lists.

It's people with your attitude who support those laws.

Life used to have a total reset button. Move 100 miles and you become who you say you are. You had to start over with trust in your community, but if you learned from your previous mistake, you could come to be seen as an upstanding member of the community.

It helps when your bank account holds enough to retire comfortably on right now. As for 8 year olds, no. They can parrot it back for you and sort of understand it, but until their frontal lobe takes over fully for their amygdala, they will make plenty of mistakes in that area.

Or you just don't hear about it because they don't tell you. Younger teens are neurologically incapable of making good decisions about future consequences. That part of the brain is literally not wired up yet.

You'll have to wait a little longer. Gen X grew up without the internet as well.

Unless what you did in public was done as an employee, it really shouldn't impact your professional life. Unless, of course, you care to count that cookie you snitched when you were 5 as a crime for the purposes of that little checkbox on your application. And do we really want to hire you when we see that you once got into a slap fight over who had cooties?